Rumors about AMD RDNA 4: RX 9070 (XT) instead of RX 8800 (XT), RX 7900 XT does not reach 114 comments
No question: after the AMD Radeon RX 7000 with RDNA 3 comes the Radeon RX 8000 with RDNA 4, right? Things could turn out differently, although AMD itself had already named models with RX 8800 and RX 8600. But the RX 8000 could remain reserved for large iGPUs with RDNA 3.5 (Strix Halo) and RDNA 4 in the desktop will come under the name RX 9000.
Radeon RX 9000 instead of Radeon RX 8000
Rumors grew over the weekend that the RDNA 4 Navi 48 and Navi 44 GPUs for desktops and laptops would hit the market not as the Radeon RX 8000, but as the Radeon RX 9000.
In addition, AMD should adapt the naming scheme so that the performance classes of a series – as at Nvidia – can no longer be identified in the 2nd but in the 3rd position of the product name: instead of a Radeon RX 9700, there should be a Radeon RX 9070. But first things first.
RDNA 4 = RX 9000, RDNA 3.5 = RX 8000?
By choosing the 9000 series, AMD would put current desktop GPUs on par with current desktop CPUs (Ryzen 9000). The Radeon RX 8000 would also be reserved for iGPU solutions based on RDNA 3.5. These models have recently identified themselves several times as the Radeon RX 8060S, thus already indicating a change in the way AMD will communicate performance classes in the future.
Four performance classes from 9070 to 9040?
According to the X account All The Watts!! Four performance classes have been announced for the next generation of desktop GPUs: Radeon RX 9070, RX 9060, RX 9050 and RX 9040. The mobile Strix Halo iGPU RX 8060S, already released to the public, will also have two smaller variants, RX 8050S and RX 8040S, can be put aside.
After the disastrous appearance of the RX 7000 in notebooks, AMD is currently planning a whole series of mobile RX 9070s. However, given the recent past, it remains to be seen whether they will end up in OEM devices.
The Radeon RX 9070 XT does not reach the RX 7900 XT?
All The Watts also wants to deliver the expected level of performance!! learned new information. According to them, the Radeon RX 9070 It would not be a coincidence if this model is no longer produced by AMD.
Until now, it was rumored that the high-end RDNA 4 model could achieve performance comparable to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Either this report was a lie, or AMD failed to meet its goal, or there will be another model with RDNA 4 above the Radeon RX 9070 XT.
In the current GPU test course of 2025, a Radeon RX 9070 the current adversary. make sense.
AMD: Last minute changes possible
The company proved this summer that AMD is capable and willing to change the product name even at the last second: the Strix Point APU has been circulating in the rumor mill for months under the name Ryzen AI 100 and has even was revealed by AMD to the press. had already been communicated in this way, but finally the generation hit the market at Computex under the name Ryzen AI 300 – the laptops exhibited there still showed the chips themselves under the name Ryzen AI 100.
A first look at the reference design
By the way, the new graphics card reference design that was also spotted on AMD banners this weekend is actually the new “Radeon RX 8800 XT”, that is to say the Radeon RX 9070 XT.
Topics: AMD Graphics Cards AMD RDNA Navi Radeon RDNA 4
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